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t, d 1. le ,if ;c 4 Jr the d •red, as b e ~sacs, i n th e h ig h est degree objectionable. Wah respect to the Irish Corporations and the Irish Church, I shall not repeat all the arguments urged on those subjects. I shall only declare that I still adhere to the same opinions in respect to them which I have all along entertained, Wi t h reear el to the St am p Duties upon News papers Bill, I must say that I w as very much surprised at tae r e j ect i on o f certain clauses in it, considering the parties by whom that w as d one , an d considering their former opi nions, tai and the general senti men t s st ill sa id to b e en t er - I mnedustby the min regard to the Press. For my own part, I admit that I was not very eager about these clauses. tl* un c, however, that it would tend very materially to mraise the character of the Press of this country if it were own who were t h e persons who conducted it. In saying thi , I do not w i s h to say anything which ceuld he consi dered disrespectful towards anybody ; but I certainly re peat iny opinion that the Press might be every day raised to a hi g h er standard, as regarded fairness and truth, if the conductors of it were fairly known to the public, and I .think that these clauses were very well calculated to ' b ring• about thi s d es i ra b le o bj ect. U pon th i s ground, therefor e , I cannot but regret that they were rejected by this House. As to the conduct of the House of Commons in setting aside the Bill in which those omissions had been made, and the passing another Bill without those clauses, I can only say that in so doing the House of Commons showed themselves to be not so regardless of the wants and desires .of the public as your Lordships, under similar circumstances, !aveeon,etimes proved yourselves to be. The Noble and teearred Lord referred also to the Bills for the reform of • the church, which the lateness of the Session, and, I can didly odmit it, the opposition which sprung up against them at that 1:1te period, rendered it impossible to carry through this Session.. I still consider these to be very valuable mea tie su l res, and ca lculated t o b e o f th e mos t i m p or t an t b ene fi t to country. B'eat is there anything so very new or unusual in the fact of a Ne7nister being obliged to refer till another Session measures which he was anxioas to carry without fur . ther delay ? It would be easy to procure many examples, as precedents to the preseni case, in which Ministers bad been oblig e d to delay their intentions, and defer a measure which they considered of great imp o rtance until a future time. There is the Act of Union itself, tin instance, which circum stances at the time obliged the 11Iinister to defer.—(Hear.) ,New, with regard to u the matters of fore manner Noble which evidently snowed th at h e h a d no intention to enter upon nor to pro voke a public discursion upon the subject—l must say that I think the Noble and Learned Lord would have better consulted the interests and the dignity of the country—which ate expressed himself so anxious to promote—if ho had ab eteined from declaring, in the abrupt manner which he did, his .opinion that the character of the country was lowered throughout Europe, and her power and influence come to n ought --terms and assertions, it is true, which are but too often used in the heat of debate, and with very little signi fication or importance of meaning —but which ought not, I think, to be brought forward on an occasion like the present 20 lightly, and so totally unsupported by any thing like arA'n ment .—( Hear. ) The very fact of the mediation which was now going on through the medium of this country, between France and the American States, cer tainly goes a little way to show that there is no diminution power, no want of authority, on the part of this country regardin t o for e ig n na ti ons , b u t th a t she is still held i n t he high light whic% she has so long deservedly occupied. . I can only say, that if the Noble and Learned Lord still adheres to the opinions which he has expressed upon this subject, he will be deserting his duty to his country if be does not take some more decisive and efficient steps in this utter. In conclusion—as to holding office, I have only say, that I conscientiously believe that the well-being of the country requires that I should hold it—and hold it 1 will —till lam removed.—(Cheers.) The Duke of WELLlNGTON—Accustomed as my Noble and Learned Friend has been of late to hear hard language levelled against himself and others with whom he acts in this House, I certainly was not surprised to hear • him, in moving for these papers, take the opportunity of re- Plying to the sarcasms which have been so often used on the other side of the House, and of defending the conduct °f himself and his friends from the charges which have been so repeatedly made against him' and Noble Lords with whom he generally acts. The Noble Baron who re cently spoke, and the Noble Viscount who has just sat down, appeared totally to have forgotten the harsh terms Which had been used by them towards his Noble and Learned Friend ; and seemed also not to bear in mind what was the object of the present motion, and what the tenor of my Noble and Learned Friend's observations were as connected with the returns he moved for. The object of my Noble and Learned Friend's motion is to show the state of legislation at present going on in this country, as relates respectively to the Houses of Lords and Commons. In the course of his speech, my Noble and Learned Friend I°Ok occasion to defend the conduct adopted by himself' and his friends, in respect to certain measures which had Slot. P" s ed into a law, and also as to certain measures Which as, had Pass-ml, comparing them with the announce- I yoent s eeeeseh had been made of them in the speech de ..i.Lv•ered by his Majesty from the Throne on the opening the sea ion. My Noble and Learned Friend has, WA great ab:lity, shown the fate of those measures which nav e been brou i ;ht forward by his Majesty's Ministers in pursuanceof th e a nnoun ce ment s in hi s Majesty's speech, an d La he had also slis.•ivn that measures therein announced not been carried into effect ; be also shewed what the fate, of th ose measures had been, not only in this but in the ofiantelrisetrlidouse of Parli amen t, i n whi c h we are given to une that the influence of his Majesty's Government is :paramount. That was purely the object of my Noble and Learned Friend's speech, and for that he has been taunted with the sarcasms of the Noble Viscount, From my own experience I'must take the liberty of observing that I con ' eide r the conduct pursued by Noble Lords on this side of t he, House throughout the present session to have been marked with the utmost moderation. For myself I think . am correct in stating that since the Address to the Throne • an answer to the King's speech, with the exception only of , one occasion, when I requested the Noble Viscount to post. Pane the Corporations (Ireland) Bill till after the Easter h : : •'—"Ys, I have never been in the House until after Easter. since that period I have certainly taken part in the pro. feedings that have been going forward in the House, and I • felt it my duty to oppose seme of the measures of Go- Iry l er ament ; but I think I shall be borne out when I that have accompanied the vote which I have given with oh. nerva tions expressedin terms of great moderation.—(Hear, fr om_ the Mi n i ster i a l b enc h es .) I h ave acted on all oc c a- OlOns to the best of my opinion, and in a way which I thought most calculated to be beneficial to the country, Nobl e Vi scount h as b een pl eas ed to taunt us for not i i !` v nig add resse d t h e Ki ng with a view to obtain his and is colleagues' removal from the situations which they hold. ti f the N o bl e Viscount would look at the manner i n w hi c h I.ls to. !ey were appoi n t e d t o o ffi ce , if he w ould look at the whole y " r of th e l ast twe l vemont h , I t hi n k h e wo uld find sufficient reason for our not having adopted that course of 'neeeding. The Noble Viscount knows very well on what eSo as he stands, and . , knowing that, it would have been Ju s t ,. well in him if he had avoided his taunts against lor not, having asked the King to remove him from of: 01----(ilear, hear.) I would tae the liberty to recom• 1 : - ,nd the Noble Viscount to consider himself not as the :,'4iitilister of a democratic body in another place, but as the 'ster of the Sovereign in a limited monarchy, in a coune d t is e pe at i n paint of extent great in its possessions, and in e i ti various i n t eres t s which, it comprises ; and that, consi ng these c i rcums t ances 3 n , he should in future concoct 41 measur es as h e h as reason to think may pass with the ap proval and suit the general interests of all, meet the go odwill o f a ll , a n d not of one particular party, one inpar ticular Place only. If the Noble Viscount will but follow that e to _ ,course for s ome littl e time, he will find no difficulty in but toucting the b us i ness o f th e Government in this House, 24r _ find everifacility afforded him in forwarding wee _ as !s . of the above description.—(llear. hear, from the Op tpneit,ton.) I would beg the Noble Viscount to recollect i filet, in regard to the Church of England, whether in ~,,Fl a nd or in Ireland. Let him recollect that the avowed [7,:cy followed by this country during the last 300 years i a been to retain inviolable that Church Establishment ; li c e a . r.c called here to consult particularly for the good of e_"ootAurch, and if the Noble Viscount brings forward any tuuletosures relating to that subject, let him recollect that all nr es of such a kind must be discussed by us with that particular object in view.—( Hear, hear.) This is not only : tbo l t d policy of this House of 300 years' standing, but it Years uPou which we acted no longer than eight or nine a aa n go, when we had occasion to review the safeguards o f this landmarks whereby the Church Establishment • to Z s ' was defended.—(Hear, hear.) With regard I have myself staid away from the House )frtei:lptioeesni g.tc.ll°,yupinnotleiye the course of the present Session, in order 3eet, and" to avoid entering into discussion upon that sub lased to avoid th e nzisteneento, present occasion I shall not enter very ' eaiiii Y a ?Pon it. The Noble Lord opposite mays, that when LI entered offic e I followed the course which found in o o n th op_te l l ,s by my preleeessors. My ...4 Lo H rd e s a , r when eknow t h e mum] a treaty in existence. • s to carry into %t er it ha s not always been thepractice of Mini them treaties them, but I tints forced on d otY to do considered that on this occasion it via,. my o. Aiss step tots hear,) I went further—l took the "ard s at at counts if l east humaiking the proceedings in rec onciliatio n not ultimately of bringing tha parties to a () MY for tl ri--(Rear.) I felt desirous of doing this, not tre at • the sake of unanimity, but also on account of the interest I felt i n a country I h a d serve d S 3 l ong .— 'sn ers shoulddeeply have the Spain. hostilitie entered epees ,fin active interference whiede still unfortunately ar,, carried on in 411 /' 01 fear, hea r .) I will not now speak further upon is 'e measures whic h L trim rsinhave been proposed, because it eele wish n t to • • Carl an 0 involve House in discussions answer no useful purpose, and w4kl) c4ll Weed produce nothing but mitchief.—(Heare hear.) I merely rise to justify my Noble and Learned Friend for proposing the present motion, and having done so I shall no longer detain the House. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, it was quite im possible that two speeches could be more different in tone and temper than those of the Noble Duke and the Noble and Learned Baron.—(Hear, hear.) They differed lobo ewe/o. He was surprised that so much time had elapsed before any Noble Lord rose to support the Noble and Learned Baron's proposition ; and he was equally surprised at the tone adopted by the Noble Duke ; because, though it was quite consistent with the temperance always manifested by that Noble Duke, yet it was entirely different from the tone of the Noble and Learned Lord who had proposed the motion ; and when the Noble Duke said he rose to support the Noble and Learned Baron, he (the Lord Chancellor) must confess, that he thought it one of the few instances in which success had not attended that Noble Duke's efforts. The Noble and Learned Baron had thought proper to say that, looking at the whole foreign and domestic policy of his Majesty's Ministers, he considered that they had disgraced themselves in the eyes of the country ; yet the Noble Duke expressly said that he did not wish to see those Ministers removed frem their office—the Noble Duke could not, therefore, concur in the opinion previously expressed by the Noble and Learned Baron. He (the Lord Chancellor) proceeded to soy that he should not have taken any part in this discussion had it net been that the Noble and Learned Baron opposite, in the course of his attack, had thought proper porticularly to advert to three measures with which he (the Lord Chancellor) had been connected. If the Noble and Learned Lord had wished fairly to complain of the conduct of his Majesty's Ministers, he should hav e moved for the papers first, and then have brought forward his charges ; but be (the Lord Chancellor) apprehended that the Noble Lord found it far more convenient to make the attack before obtaining the information.—(Hear, hear.) In the first place, the Noble Lord fell foul of the Stan naries Bill, which be was pleased to describe as an un constitutional measure—(Hear, hear) —Upon what ground he (the Lord Chancellor) was altogether at a loss to compre hend. The object of that Bill simply was to make more independent a judge—the vice-warden—who had hitherto been removeable at pleasure : an improvement which cer tainly appeared to be anything but unconstitutional. Anoe ther measure which had met with the Noble and Learned . Baron's hostility. was that introduced for the purpose of effecting a very important, a long and uni versally called for, object—the better administration of the Court of Chancery ; combined with which measure was another, also loudly called for—to improve the judicial legislation of their Lordships. To another most im portant and desirable measure also thrown out by their Lordships, the Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt Biil, the objection set up to it by the Noble and Learned Lord and his friends was the, alleged late period of the Session at which it was introduced.—( Hear, hear.) Yet this Bill, so generally called for by the people, was introduced before the end of June, and surely there still remained enough weeks of the Session wherein fully to discuss its provi sions. No Bill of the present Session had occupied more than one or two nights in Committee ; yet the Noble and Learned Lord induced his friends to re-echo his assertion, that six weeks and upwards was not sufficient to do justice to the Imprisonment for Debt Abolition Bill,--(Cheers.) This, however, was not the class of ob jection taken to the Court of Chancery Bill, which was honoured so far as to be considered upon its merits or de. merits. He (the Lord Chancellor) should not, of course, think of taking up the time of the House by going into any statement as to the nature and objects of that Bill. It was euffieient to say, that it was a measure which provided a remedy—an easy, if not a complete one—for the crying evils which so many of his Majesty's subjects daily expe rienced from the present system of administration of the Court of Chancery. Of these evils no one was better aware than the Noble and Learned Baron; and he (the Lord Chancellor) was equally surprised and grieved to find that that Noble and Learned Lord, instead of coming for ward to aid by his advice the great work of remedying them, had altogether opposed the Bill, which was intended to supply, at least to some considerable extent, that long desired remedy—so far from anticipating that Noble and Learned Lord's hostility, he had fully expected his zealous co-operation.—(Hear, hear.) So with the other measure which was designed to facilitate and improve .the admini stration of justice in their Lordships' House. It had never been denied, even by the most hardy, that such an im provement was what the public had a right to expect, and what it beeame their Lordships to accede to. It was no doubt difficult to fix upon the right remedy and its details ; but although probably the remedy proposed might not have been the rescst complete, yet it at least wont to secure ; as far as possible, the object in view, without interfering with the known and acknowledged principles in which it was deemed dangerous to make an alteration. It might not perhaps have 14001) the best plan, but it was at any rate a safe one. It was to he regretted that what was defective in that plan, the Noble earl Learned Baron had lent the aid of hi. talents to rectify—a course which would have been much more satisfactory to the country thee his re. jection of the measure illtnKother.—(Hear, hear.) The last measure which the Noble mid Learned Lord had de scribed as involving in disgrace the Minister who / 4,41.104 it forward and not carried it through, was the Bill for the consolidation of the Eecleslq.qpieel Courts—an important measure, and also one surrounded with many difficulties. Now, in referenee to this measure, it was generally . stood, that it was eshe4hetely essential as a preliminary to this Bill, that both the Bill for thtt he;tgr discipline of the Church, and also the " Executors", and i‘ wilt" 8411~ should have ..41.1 p ai , the House, and neither of those MI6 were passed. He considered this statement as his suffi cient exoneration from the abarge not going through with the Bills which he had undertaken, fleeing 111440 these observations, he would no longer detain the House. Lord LYNDHURST 4414, two of the Bills mentioned by the Noble and Learned Lord had passed the House, After a few words from the Marquis of WENTMEAT H, the motion was put awl azreed to. COPYRIGHT BILL. On the motion of the Marquis of LANSDO WNE, this Bill was committed and reported. The .Marquis of L ANEWOWNE presented certain re turns respecting trade, commerce, and manufactures, whicl he said bad been made up to the latest possible period Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS BILL. On the motion that the House should go into Committee on this Bill, Lord LYNDHURST had no objection to the other three Bills which embodied parts of that Bill from the amendments made, in which the other House had dis sented ; but be considered that their Lordships could not adopt the present Bill, without abandoning the determina tion they had come to with respect to those amendments, therefore be felt it to be his duty to move, " that the Bill be committed this day three weeks." The LORD CHANCELLOR was surprised at the maim) made by the Noble and Learned Lord. He begged their Lordships to bear in mind that everything which this Bill contained was in the former Bill when it left that House, and went back to the House of Commons.— (Hear, hear.) The only argument that had been used to induce their Lordships to throw out this Bill was that cer tain parts of it formed part of another Bill, in which a point arose which became a point of disagreement between the two Houses of Parliament. But as this Bill contained only such parts of the former Bill as were assented to by their Lordships as well as by the other House of Parliament— as it did not contain a single disputed point—he did trust that they would not be of opinion that there existed any fair ground for opposing its further progress.—(Hear.) Lord HOLLAND—My Lords, this is passing strange ! It certainly goes beyond anything that I could expect! I certainly did think that when the Noble and Learned Lord moved for a list of the rejected Bills, that he did not maan to add this one more to that catalogue of unfortunate measures,(Gheers.) My Lords, I remember having been invited to dim; many years ago with an AmeriT can gentleman who was 411 exceedingly hospitable man, and who presssed his company to drink a great deal of wine more wine I must own, than was pro. , per for us to drink. We sat very late. When the dinner was over, and we were about to retire quietly to tea, lie stopped us that we might look at a pile of blank bottles under the side-board, sayin g , " These are the bottles we have drunk."—(A laugh.) Now, I cannot help thinking that the American gentleman in question and the Noble and Learned Lord, must have had some acquaintance, for he also appears to doriye a peculiar satisfaction from point ing to the black bottles.—,(tAiji s -ler,) But there is this difference between them :my American frier 4 41i urge us to g o h ac k an d d r i n k more. Wh en we thong twe had settled quietly to our tea, hp did not beg us to return and drink mor e b ott l es, and add to Oot nilf3,-.7-...“-lear, and laughter.l My Lords, it appears to me impossible for the House of Commons tp h 2 ye proceeded in a way more de serving of your Lordships' cunsideFikt.km than they have done m this instance. Your Lordships objeete4 4t part of the former Rd:, and upon t h a t o bj ec ti on th e Bill was lost. The House o f C ommons then split the P i ill nto four different parts, preserving only such portions as your oib l Lordibia fpq not obj ec t to. I would ask, could t h ere b e ipere conciliatory towards your o e o e r d d i s n i g i p sti7er more der eraie Lord LYNDHURST—What I contend is, that this Bill 11 4;t, to consid,er, in connection with the other Bills, 1 , 9 (4,4.9 tilt= kii`MlF that in which we made the amendulGati, t Imp RP RtqClioiß pql if thp amend ments are added to it t l i burtor t4tttfOme qpa it O'er" wise, would be to rer:_er its Proceedings ridiculous, After the conferences, and the freesconeerenees, that have been held, it ^old be absurd if the same measure were passed as would lia l V'e iF t 4q4,d of agreeing to preserve our amendments, we bad abandonatl4, 7 o4 4 o Pr Viscount MELBO EJRNE—Those amendments have no , connection with this measure. Lord LYNDHURST—WiII you engraft the amend. 'Tints on the Bill ? Viscount MELBOURNE—Certainly not that about the trustees. Lord LYNDHURST—Then I repeat, that to pass this Bill would be to make the proceedings of this House ridiculous ; it would be then in precisely the same situation as if it had not resolved to adhere to the amendments. The LORD CHANCELLOR—The subject matter of the amendments has nothing to do with this Bill. Here is totally different subject matter. The Duke of WELLINGTON said the four Bills formed together a substitute for the one Bill that had been thrown out. It could not be expected that their Lordships on this, the last day of the Session, would consent to puss Bills so materially differing from the measure that ballheen rejected. If introduced at all, they ought to have em bodied all the amendments. Viscount MELBOURNE--It was never meant to leave in the hands of the former trustees for another year the power of administering the charitable funds ; and we will not do it, cost what inconvenience it may.—(Hear, hear.) Lord LYNDHURST—The Noble Lord is very intelli gible—the Noble Lord is very imperative.—(Divide, divide.) Their Lordships then divided, and the numbers were— Contents • 14 Non-contents 3O Majority for Lord Lyndhurst's amendment -16 The Bill is of course lost. The Municipal Funds Bill, the Municipal Jurisprudence Bill, the Municipal Boundaries Bill, and the List of Voters Bill were committed, and reported with amendments. The Corporate Property of Ireland Bill was reported, and 1-ie amendments were agreed to.—Adjourned. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS Lord Lyndhurst outbid himself last night. He prefaced his motion for a return of the Public Bills originated in both Houses during the Session, and of the manner in which they were disposed of, by a speech in which he seemed to glory in the mischief he had done. " Was there ever," exclaimed his Lordship, " under our Constitution, and in our history,. such a Government as the one composed of Noble Lords Op posite ? In this House they are totally inefficient...-. they can effect nothing. Why, my Lords, we on this side of the House are obliged to discharge the duties of the Government—we are obliged to go through the toil and labour of perfecting measures which come up from the other House." And in this taunting and sneering manner did his Lordship proceed with his pretended review of the business of the Session. Lord Holland read the Noble and Learned Lord a lesson which a man of any feeling would have smarted under, and Lord Melbourne gave him a tremendous castiga tion. Complimenting the Noble and Learned Lord on his talents, he referred him to a saying of a former Earl of Bristol of another Statesman (Lord Strafford), to whom the Noble and Learned Lord might not inaptly be compared ; of whom he said, that " the malignity . of his practices was largely aggravated by his vast talents, whereof God had given him the possession, but the Devil 'their application." This quotation told with great effect. Speaking of an allu sion of Lord Lyndhurst to an appeal to the people, Lord Melbourne exclaimed, " Then, in Heaven's name, why do they not do so? Why do they not take some steps towards an appeal of this kind, or bring an address to the Crown for our removal ? That would be a course of conduct which would very speedily operate as an appeal to the people's feelings, such as the Noble and Learned Lord seems so anxi ously to desire, the result of which would be to con vince him that the country at large has no partici pation in the opinions professed by himself and his party." "It appears to me," added his Lordship, " very inconsistent in the. Noble and Learned Lord to talk in the way he has done, when he knows all the time that lie and his friends have not the sup port of the country, and that on that very ac count they dare not take means to place themselves in the offices of Government, even though they might otherwise feel disposed to do so." His Lord ship concluded with observing "that he had not been particularly ambitious of the situation into which cir cumstances rather than his own wishes had thrown him ; hut that, conscientiously believing that the well being of the country required that he should hold it, hold it he would till he was removed." The sneering and impudent manner in which Lord Lyndhurst, like another illephistophiles, expressed the delight with which he contemplated his mischievous efficiency in baulking the hopes of the people, cannot easily be described, His, triumph will not be of long duration. Th@ people will know how tt4do themselves justice, and we are much mistaken if his Lordship's speech of last night do not cootribute materially to forward that work.— dtforning Chronicle. Lord Lyndhurst terminated last night his splendid career for this session of Parliament, by an oration which ought to be printed at every press, and posted under every roof, in old England. It was a summary of the session—of this session, so memorable in the annals of our country, and in which his Lordship has acquired laurels, that even his most ardent admirers had not anticipated. For luminous arrangement and perspicuous statement, combined with the most po lished sarcasm and irresistible irony, we know no effusion of the Noble Lord, distiguished as they ever are by these striking qualities of accomplished elo quence, superior to this well-timed and well -executed address. Its effect upon the House, is only th e herald of its effect upon the country. It fell upon the ranks of the Government like a Congreve rocket. Two Cabinet Ministers, one the Prime Minister, rose to answer it. They spoke one immediately after the other, as if they felt conscious that two of their number at least were wanting to combat such un antagonist. No words can describe the outrageous irritability of Lord Melbourne, or the blank rage of Lord Holland. One found words in his wrath, and the other lost them in his perplexity. Yet the First Lord of the Treasury, though he raged, and th e Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, though he whimpered, must yield in the effect that they produced to the solemn testiness of the Lord Chancellor. Lord Melbourne writhed like a scotched snake. Lord Hol land gambolled like an excited elephant, but the pre sent Keeper of the Great Seal, the successor of Lord Lyndhurst, was the crowning glory of this grand scene of Ministerial propriety and administrative justification, and to the satisfaction of all present assuredly " wrote himself dOwn" a most grave and reverend, though not most potent, Signior. 'Will these men go on ? We hope so. Lord Viscount Melbourne assured us last night, that he was Mini'ster, and Minister he would remain, come what might. His Lordship condescended to say nothing of the favour of the Crown, not even of the confidence of the nation. 'We are wearied of experiments and restless change. What this country requires is a firm and vigorous and able Administration, supported by the property and intelligence of the coun try, not by a pennyless and ignorant faction. The Duke of Wellington last night well deßciitted the eha• rater of the British empire) its Mit And various in terests, its diversified population, and its complicated wealth, Can a Ministry, tied to the hackney-chariot wheels of a contemptible crew of political adventurers, the spawn of a malignant class of our society, gene rated man ill.seasoned and distempered time, rise to the height of this e l evate d o ffi ce ? S ay w h a t the jobbing 'levellers like, England must still be governed by men whose wealth creates a natural anxiety for the stability of all property, and whose education and in telligence enable them to appreciate, and induce tlietil to cling W I thOn the strength and essence of our system of constitutional freedom. The able and seasonable speech of Lord Lyndhurst 'nay be comidered as the manifest () of tho cCiklAqt vativp 'WV: ill its CleliV9ry assist the qo.ver ß inen.t in their machinations as to the King's speech ? What have they !Null Windsor to-44y Will the para. g r aßil Omitteci • Wh4t Nyohy Chanccliar of the E4ehequerF Lord Lansdowne was dumb last night. This motion of the great Conservative-leader, this power ful vindication of the legislativ e career of the House of L9rds by its ablest member. chime i n tivilhtlleiw4.4lgq4e4 bal t lie'SNO;i l g l I to cast contumely upon the Upper House of Parliament for their constitutional opposition t',o, an ineapa* nlid k unprincipled •MiniStrYi 1419441., ya! 11- 1 ‘ as LOrd lidridlitirst well clb,s.Me§i by. irresistible majority, and maintained i n Eho G il le t by abandoning their prime measures at the sudden dicta tion of " a mutinous and sullen section," such a Ministry are exactly the men to hold the Sovereign iu duresse, -arid outrage the Constitution I We tell them once for all, the people of England scorns them ; we know our countrymen. It is our pride to advocate on aft' oCettsions-their interests, maintain their rights, and constilt their feelings. It is not Lord Viscount Mel bourne, with all his loose-tongued and ill- conditioned ribaldry, that will persuade us he knows more than ourselves of the heart and soul of the English nation. We tell him the core . of his political body is rotten, its foundation sand, and its days numbered.--Times. The most remarkable feature in the proceedings of the House of Lords last night, or perhaps in the whole history of the present Session, was the speech of Lord Lyndhurst, involving a rapid but a search ing review of the acts of. the Administration, as con trasted with their promises in his Majesty's opening Speech. The address of ' the Noble and Learned Lord upon this occasion was, by the acknowledgment of all who heard it, and we believ e will be by that of all who shall read it, regarding as one of the most effective appeals to the understanding that ever was delivered within the walls of Parliament. In clear ness of style, condensation of thought, felicity of illus tration, and vigour of expression, it would be difficult to find its equal—useless to look for its superior. But its excellence was not merely of a literary cha racter—that would be but small praise ---it grappled with facts, exposed misrepresentations, and vindicated truth. We may mention it as one of the felicitous circumstances attending this able effort, that being an attack, and an astounding attacls upon the MiLi sters, it was not an unprovoked one. Day after day and night after night it was the practice of the Whig-Ra dicals, both in and - out of Parliament, to char m t h e majority of the House of Lords with faetisais opp ss i_ sion. The charge was easily made i bot how llaS it been , supported ? In the luminous history of the Session contained in Lord Lyndh urst ' s speech the whole question, or *flier the whole succession of questions, has been distinctly and fairly met ; and if ever the tables were turned upon a ROI Of men who thought to establish themselves by mere dint of asser tion, they were turned last night upon those who hold the Government in their, hands without knowing how to conduct it. We will not spoil the effect of his Lord ship's eloquence by any attempt of our own, either to paraphrase or contrast it. We will, therefore, at once refer our readers to the report. They will find it not merely eloquent,. not merelrargumentative, but manly, straightforward, and irresistible. Both the speeds and the motion go directly to put this issue before the pub lic :—H ere are the two Houses--unfortunately rival Houses—contending far your confidence ; judge us by our acts ; they are these, It is well that matters have come to this. Parliament is about to separate, and rumour even whispers that a dissolution is not far off. The whole case of the contending parties is now be fore the public. It is placed upon its true footing, and the public, in determining who are its true friends, will take the facts into account, If not satisfied to receive them from Lord Lyndhurst, they may now have them from the Government offices, with the wow tion of Ministers themselves.—Mornirm Hoold. • (1 We need scarcely point the attention of our readers to the proceedings of the House of Lords last night. Lord Lyndhurst, in moving for a return which has already been moved for in the House of Commons, took the opportunity, as it was expected that he would do, of abusing the Ministry, and challenging a com parison between the conduct of the House of whieli he is the Belial, with that which honourably and deter minedlyj supports th e p resent G overnmen t ; but b-jw sadly •id he fail in his attack; is With the most ardent intentions to prove that the Ministers and . of Commons were in fault—that it ws • received the sanction of t's, e - E ss owing to their conduct that so few Bills for the ' fi ofthe people had oene t 'Che House were utterly Legislature--his endeavours and fruitless. Lord Melbourne's reply w:„„ perfectly overpowering, not only as to the personal part of the matter, but as to the general question, and will be long remembered as one of the most effective and eloquent addresses which have ever been uttered in either House of Parliament. Lord Melbourne is no Quaker—we use the word in its original sense—when the occasion calls for exertion. He is not only always up to the mark, but he even exceeds the highest expectations of his most ardent admirers. Witness his reply last night to the Belial of the fallen . angels. The Duke of Wellington at tempted a reply—but it was feeble and ineffective ; no proper reply could, in fact, be given'. The denuncia tions of Lord Melbourne were as irresistible as they were just, and left his opponents without ground to stand upon or matter to bring forward in defence. He dared the Tories to take efice.—Mornina Advertiser. The speech delivered last night by Lo'r'd Lyndhurst will, we venture to predict, create a greater sensation throughout the country than anything which has oc curred in either House of Parliament for a very consi derable period. Aware of the power of the Noble Baron, and aware also of the nature of the materials which lay ready to his hand, we ventured to anticipate that in reviewing the Parliamentary proceedings of the session now about to conclude, his Lordship would in flict upon the insolent and imbecile assailants who have dared to impeach his conduct, and that of the honour able and patriotic statesmen with whom lie is associated, a chastisement more severe than was ever before admi nistered, before the face of the public, upon men calling themselves Ministers of State, and pretending to the character and qualifications necessary for the Govesiss ment of a nation. But we had no idea, we confess . , at the merciless and excruciating flagellation thigh we', about to be inflicted by the vigorous Ai4)) of the Noble Lord upon the miserable enlprits who lay prostrate undei his lash, We heartily thank Lord Lyndhurst, and our feelings of gratitude and adusisation will be shared by the nation at large, fAt the very efficient manner in which he has pesfosmed a very disagreeable, but a very necessary rash, When men distinguished only for hypocrisy, meanness, profligacy, and folly, usurp those important functions in a State which ought to be the trial and the arced of wisdom and of virtue, an invalu able service is rendered to the whole community by him who , strips the impostors of. their fraudulent disguise —exposes them, in all their naked defor mity, to the public gaze—and visits- them with that severity of punishment, whitish their presumption and their wickedness, have so well deservel Such a service. wag rendered, last. night, by -Lord Lynd hurst, to the British nation, in a manner which will long dwell in the grateful memory of the pub lic, and which will not, we imagine, be forgotten to the latest hour of their lives by the wretched delin quents whose conduct had furnished occasion to the crushing animadversions of the Noble Lord. It is wholly unnecessary for us to advert to the various topics upon which Lord Lyndhurst insisted, with unparal leled eloquence and overwhelming force, since we can not doubt that every syllable of his matchless address will be attentively perused and carefully treasured up in the memory of all who take the least interest in pub lic affairs. There it one proof, however, of the con temptible cunning, the unprincipled meanness, and the sordid attachment to place, which have actuated the whole conduct of the present Ministers of the Crown towards the House of Lords, which cannot be too frequently presented to the public, and which we, therefore, think it our duty to recapitulate here. In contempt of the very elementasy, prin ciples of the British Constitution s Ministers and their adherents, to Gratify mtaiti undisguised revolu tionists, vYlicAt V. 410.51 are necessary to keep the present Mminrstration in power, have stigmatized and reviled the House of Lords for antekttlitig or rejecting several Bills sent up to their Lordships from the House of Corrusoliks, Ministers and their adherents have sedu lOtisly inculcated the notion, that it is a great crime ill the House of Lords to deal with measures which majority of the House of Commons have approved, in such runner as the independent discretion, and the conscientious conviction of their Lordships may re quire., Surely, th en , i t must b e a much wocus crime bn the, part of Ministers msstilate. their most important n,rwiio\is 4 a,baudon altogether In haca -9,11; g)Ai va l ue, iq the Church and to, the State — measures whi c h Mi n i sters t h emsOveAx i d e l i berately introduc e d, wiliots 4at t l *Et sAmc4ii"ed by'the esssdial akspsobatima majority, not of one to cip, kitik l without any other motive, or even peetenee, than the necessity of retaining the sup port of a cabal of reckless and mischievotts, ci l 4 e rs in politics, who, for the moment, tx:_p,n,px sets m the Hou se o f c ommons b ut w h oo , otvisrik`cto . r, and matufeat \\ , ‘9 Is44ll‘aiment, a but of both— and aims have stripped them of whatever share they may ever have enjoyed of weight, influence, or authority in the community. When Lord Melbourne, and Lord Holland, and the rest of the . crew, make it a matter of reproach against the House of Lords, that they had. rejected some of the measures which the House of Commons had adopted on the recommendation of Government, they certainly did not sufficiently reflect on the terrible retort to which they must expose themselves by this absurd and unconstitutional .ac cusation. The imbecile and presumptuous blunderers forgot, surely, that of all the destroyers of Bills for the correction of defects or anomalies in our national institutions they had themselves .been the most reck less and unsparing and that th e Bil ls of reform which th e y h a d "burked were Bills which had not only met with the concurrence of a decided majority of both branches of the Legislature, but which the v, the Ministers, had stamped with ,the indelible seal of their own deliberate and spontaneous approba tion. When the reproaches with which Ministers have presumed to assail the House of Lords, for he rejection of measures of which their Lordships could not conscientiously approve, are regarded conjunction with the abandonment by Minitt - c.ii the 7.o selves of measures w hi ch had thP„ • cA. MO .approba . - tion of tho House of Lords % and of the Execut.i-co Geverwient, what is the neces -4 411 ° H b '.....se of Commons, sary con , f ing l on ? T .:4; Is that the Ministers of the r ..,rown are •!,'?) ?ar subjugated by the factions, whose aid they have invok e d, as to have determined to carry on the Government of the country in implicit obedience to the least reputable section of the House of Com mons, without respect either to their own opinions or to those of the two Houses of Parliament ; and to calumniate and revile every individual, be he King, Peer, or Commoner, who will not aid and abet them in carrying this virtuous and patriotic determination into effeet.—Morning Post. LITERATURE. LETTERS of I?UNNYIii EDE. London, llfacrone. We have heard it predicted that England would produce a second Milton sooner than she would a second Junius. The prediction was false. England Nas produced a second Junius. His letters, which have appeared in the columns of our Contemporary the Times are before us ; and we have the miter's alp( thoritv for assuring all who have read them--that one person in every twenty-thousand of the people of England, and no person at all in either Scotland ot , Ireland —that he, the said second Junius, will never he known to a single soul of them. It is all nonsensa to think of discoverin g who h e i s ; an d t h oug h we Iva confident th a t none of - them ever troubled ;neir h 4 ad s about him or his letters, and, what is more, that they never intend it, yet it may be !"- - st as well to let them know that Junius 11. is ii's t as invisible as Jitnius L Hear his own, %ftte - .neti't of the fact i n one o f hi s epistles tg Stanley:— ssaa Is" o " Who,. some days back, i n my l etter to Si r Robert Ptal -ter, let me observe in passing, written by one 'whose ..ame, in spite of the audacious license of frantic eon:lecture, has never yet been even intimated, can never be sliscovered, and will never be revealed." The " frantic conjecture" may lead • our readers to suppos e that hundreds of weak-headed 'people had gone mad in their efforts to identify Run•aymede. We have much pleasure in being able to quiet their fears on this had. It is true that two wersons did call at Printing.. house Square, and threaten to horse-whip the editor, if the name of the writer of the letter to Peel, signed " Runnyknede," were not given up to them ; but we happen to know that the persons who were guilty of this " audacious license" were sent by the writer him self, in the vain expectation that the affair would form the subject of a leading paragraph. So much for Benjamin D'lsraeli the younger's self denial. We now come to his letters, from which we are about to make copious extracts—and first of the present state of public opinion :-- " The public mind of late h as b een cleared of avast amount of error in constitutional learni ng . Scarcel y a hi re d wr i ter would have the front at this day to pretend that a difference of opinion between the two Houses of Parliament is a collision between the Peers and the People. That phrase s sh e People,' is a little better comprehended now than it used to be : it will not serve for the stalking-horse of faction, as it did. We know very well that the House of Commons is not the House of ' the People ;' we know very well, that the People' is a body not intelligible in a political sense ; we know very well that the Lords and the Commons are both sections; of the Nation, and both alike and equally representati ve of that great community." This is all the effect of Runnvuiede's letters and the apostasy of the Times. Of cease we include the one volume letter to Lord Lyndhurst about the Constitu tion, of which twenty copies have not been 'yet sold. Astonishing effect of the Runnymede letters upo the House of Peers : " These six months have not been uneventful in results. If they have not ivitnessed any leeis'Ative enactment eminently tending to our social welfare, t):? e y have developed much po litical ersroluct for whi c h our posterity may be grateful ; for this asssion, Sir, has at Ipast been memo ra bl e f or one grea t event—an event not ieSerior, i n m y est i mat i on , i n i ts benefi cial influence on the fortunes of the country than Magna Charm itself—l mean the rally of the English Constitution; I might uPa a stronger phrase—l might say its triumph." We need not point out the logical acuteness of this passage. Everybody must know that the rally of the English Constitution is not less important than the Constitution itself—that the rejection of the Irish Church Bill is as important as Magna Charta to the people of England. Let us see. It is, if we remember rightly, about five months since Lord Lyndhurst, in a private conversation with Benjamin D'lsraeli the younger, pronounced the British Consti tution to be in a most hopeless condition. His Lord ship on that occasion, among other remedies, hinted that were the Old Lady supplied with a daily potation of ass' milk, with a due proportion of slops, there might be a possibility of her recovery. Ben saw his Lordship's drift in an instant. He seized his hat and cane, hurried home, and scrawled an octavo volume, to which he gave the unpretending title of a letter de tailing all the symptoms of the Old Lady's malady. This was not exactly what the ex-Chancellor desired, and he told Ben as much the first time he afterwards met with him. This was enough. Ben snatched up the quill a second time, and every day brought us a supply of slops, labelled " Runnymede. Things now took quite a different turn. The Constitution shewed signs of returning convalescence ; the Peers looked as smiling and as sunny as milk-maids ; and Ben the younger, seeing the world preserved on its axis by the force of his genius—that he had discovered the standing place which Archimedes so vainly sought after--erowed and wriggled about with the undisguised delight of a dandled babe. But we are losing sight. of the Letters in our admiration of their results. A sample o f the Runnymedian. su bli me n But while I watch lon in your ludicrous councils, an aw. ful shade rises from behind the chair of my Lord President. Slaves it is your master ; it is Eblis with Captain Rock's bloody cap shadowing his atrocious countenance. In one hand he waves a torch, and in the other clutches a skull. He gazes on his victims with a leer of fiendish triumph. Contemptible as yfra are, it is this dark connexion that involves your fate ss'.th even an epic dignity, and makes the impending story of your retributive fortunes assume almost a Dantesque sublimity." Another : " Towering above all, and resting ma lurid shrine bedewed with blood, and encircled with flame, with distended jaws and colossal tail, is the grim figure of the O'Connell crocodile." A specim en o f t h e R unnymedian terrible : " You are summoned now, like the knight of Rhode., in Schiller's heroic ballad. as the only hope of a suffering island. The mighty dragon is again abroad, depopulating our fields, wasting our pleasant places, poisoning our fountains, menacing our civilization. To-day he gorges on Liverpool, to-morrow he riots at Birmingham : as he advances nearer the metropo lis, terror and disgust proportionately increase. Already we hear his bellow, more awful than hyatuas ; already our atmos otiose is tainted with the venomous expirations of his malignant lungs; yet a little while and his incendiary crest will flame on. our horizon, and we shall mark the horrors of his insatiable jaws, and the scaly volume of his atrocious tail!" A Runnymedian fact : " In a Peel, a Stanley, a Wellington, and a Lyndhurst, the people of England recognise their fitting leaders." Another Runnvinedian tact for the consideration of the Reformers of England and Scotland, and the Members of the Irish Association : " There is hot a man in Britain who at the bottom of his heart is nni proud of our empire, and who does not d esp i se itaheettfz m aysiocor rupt r race cor who menaceitsi oee ntrigrity. H owever of England will never long submit to s Milesian master." t and dare machinate, t o the pe Runnyinecle's fourth description of O'Connell : " Who is this man whose name is ever on your lips ?—who is this O'Connell ? He is the feed advocate of the Irish priest hood; he is the hired instrument of the Papacy. That is his precise position. Your enemies, that wretched anti-national faction who wish to retain povror, or creep into place, by clinging to th , e . skirts of thi s f oreign rebel, taunt those who would expose cos destructive arts, and unmask the purp ose of his desperate principles, w i th the wretched sco ff , that p we may make hint of importance by our notice. He cannot be of more importance than lie is. Demoralised in character, dess perate in fortunes, infinitely over-estimated in talents, he i s the most pow er f u l i ndividual in the world, because he ' is en trusted with the delegated In •►-fl uence of the greatest power in existence. "fhis man, O'Connell, is the hired instrument of the Pa. pacy ; as such, his mission is to destroy your Protssstant So ciety, and, as such, he is a more terrible enemy to Enand than N a p o l eon, with all his inspiration. Yoisr empire land your liberties are in more danger at this moment, than when. the army of invasion was encamped at Boulogne. " The hired writers would persuade you that he is a great man. He has not a single quality of a great man. "Heis as little a great orator as a great gen. He has not a single quality of a great orator, except a good voloo• defy his creatures to produce a single passage from any speech he ever delivered illumined by a single flash of genius, or tinctured with the slightest evidence of taste, or thought, or study. Learning, he has none ; little reading. His style in. speaking, as in writing, is ragged, bald, halting, disjointed., He has no wit. o Of his moral character it %might be enough to say, that he is a systematic liar and a br_lgarly cheat, a swindler, and a Poltroon. But of O'Conr.ell you can even say more. His public and his private life are equally profligate; he has tom mitted every crime that does not require courage : the man who plunder the peasant can also starve his child. " With what enthusiastic cheers did they not greet the "winged words with which you assailed the anti-national enemy, when you rose in the House lik e a young eagle, and dashed back his treason in the baffled countenancvs-of ht e priestlyde legate 1" Thus O'Connell is first " an awful shade," rising behind the chair of the Lord President. Then from a shade he becomes Eblis. Next he is a crocodile t , towering above all, and resting on a lurid shrine;!" the said shrine being bedewed wrth blood, and encir cled with flame I Odd *le position for a crococh . Again, he appears as.a dragon, inflaming the lic.riaon with his horrid crest ; gobbling up cities, an d doing a world of other mischief besides. 'At last the. erudite Ben discovers that the " awful shade," Eblis," the " towering crocodile," and the " mightlr dragon," is SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S—YzeirßnDtr. The attendance was much less numerous than on Monday, and the business transacted so inferior in character and amount as to require only a statement of the odds at the close of the room : DONCASTER CT. LEGER. 9 to 2 agst Mr. W. Scott's Bro. to St. Giles—taken 5 to I agst Colonel Westenra's Wedge—taken 7 to 1 agst Lord Wilton's Gladiator —taken 8 to 1 agst Mr. Bird's Redshank—taken 9 to 1 agst Mr. Allanson's Vulture 9 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Trapball 15 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Carew —taken 15 to 1 agst Mr. Orde's Beeswing—taken No others mentioned. 3 to 1 agst Brother to St Giles and Carew fi to 1 agst Vulture and Beeswing—taken 500 even between Trapball and Vulture KING'S PLATE AT F.GHAM. The offer ma d e on Monday to take 1,500 t o 1,000 that Elis beats Hornsea was repeated, but not aoeepted. LEE, LEWISHAM , GREENWICH and EL TRAM RAI uRS.-- YESTERII4 T. The West Kent Stakes of 15 soy& each, with 50 added, for horses of all ages. 5 Subs. 11Ir. Balchin's Guitar • walked The Railway St a k es of 50 sous. value,. for wa all ages.o ver, Mr. Sadle r ' s T a ll y- h o Mr. Agate' s Nonsen se .. Mr. tremeny's Sprin g h ea d L ass . 2 2 .. Mr. Potter's Paddy ............. 4 dr Mr. Whitmarsh's rear Nr —et ..... The Greenwich Borough Cup of F.,.0 sovs., added to a t;weepstakos of 6 s o * s. each, for-torges of all ages. 4 ,subs. Mr. Brown's Eliza Titomville ..................... 0 1 1 „Mr , ~Coninl's k:telaide 0 2 2 z"-im''s Wilful Will, by Langer ............ The first wag a dead heat. jTte races were run on a course formed on some meadows ad oining the main road, about a mile on the lower side of Blackheath. They were very numerously attended, and, on the whole, produced tolerably good sport. The list holds out larger promises for this day's amusement. WOLVERHAMPTON RA CES.—MoxDA r. A Ladies' Plate of 50 sovs , free for, any horse. Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. Critchley's b. c. by Memnon, 3 yrs... Arthur, jun 1 0 1 General Yates's Mersey, 3 yrs, 6st. I llb ....... 22dr 3 Mr. Giffard's ch. f. by Langa r , 4 yrs, Bst. Mr. Wilson's br. f. by Belzo n i, 4 yrs, Bst, lib Mr. Lacy's Midsummer, 3 yr s , 6st. In 2 b TUESnAY. The Wolverhampton St. Leger of 25 sovs. each, for three years old, with 50 added; colts, Bst. 71b. ; •fillies, &t. 41b. Mil e an d three quarters. 5 Sub s , Mr. Lucas's Te11ta1e..,...... Mr. Leedham's Aleppo Mr. Nanney's Bravo.. 3 The Chillington Stakes of 25 sovs, each, for two yrs old ; colts, Bst. bib. ; fillies, Bst. 31b. Straight half mile. 4 Subs. Mr. Walter's Prime Warden Marton 1 Mr. Gitfard's b. c. by Priam ....... Mr. Lacy' s S u b a l tern 4 The Cleveland Cup of 100 sovs., with 50 added. Three miles. Mr. E. Peel's Tamvrorth, 5 yrs, Bst. 101 b Spring 1 Mr. Nanney's Ratcatcher, 6 yrs, 9st Gen. Yates's Sylvan, 4 yrs, Bst. 21b The Borough Member's Plate of 60 sovs. for all ages. Heats, once round and a di s t ance. Mr. Wvatt' s Intruder ... Mr. Giffa r d' s C o l um bi ne Darling 2 3 1 1 2 2 dr Mr, Haywood' s L e n tu ll us Mr. Evanes sister to P res t o 3 dr wznsrEsnAr. The Wrottesley Stakes of 10 sows. each, with 20 added. Once round. Mr. E. Peel's Morrison, 3 yrs, ist. 41b Lord Stanley's Verbena, 4 yrs, Bst. 41b 2 Sir J. Wrottesley na. Zora, 3 yrs, 7st. llb 0 Mr. Collett's Fidelio, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b Sweepstakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft. ; colts, Bst. 61b. ; fillies, Bst. 31b. Once round. Five Subs. Mr. Leedham's b. c. Mulatto Mr. Massey's Triton 2 Mr. Mott's Rosetta .... 3 A Holyoake Stakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft„ with 50 sovs. added, Second horse to save his stake. 23 Subs., 13 of whom deelarcr.i. Mr. Robinson's Stockport, 4 yrs, ist. 21b .. 1 Mr. J. Allanscal's Lady Moore Carew, 6 yrs, Bst. blb 2 51r. Giffard's Traveller, aged, Bst. 1 Ilb 3 31r, Lucas's Ter.talu, 6 yrs, Bst. 101 b CHEL 7 2,ISFORD RAGES— W EDNBSDA r T)7 .e Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each ; three yrs old, 7st. llb ; four, Bst. 71b : five, 9st. 21b ; six and aged, 9st. 61b. Three miles. The winner to be sold for 500 soya., &c. Mr. Batson's Taishteer, 3 yrs,~, Lord Stradbroke's Daniel, 4 yrs Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 50 added. • Heats, new mile. The winner to be sold for 300 sore., &c. Mr. Greville's Marmalade, yrs ...Pavis 12 I Mr. H. Stracy's B o di ce , 5 yrs 2 I 2 Mr. Earle's Bre n d a , 3 yrs Match, 10 sovs., with 30 added. —Mr. Baker's Exposits, 6st. Blb., beat Mr. Earle's Brenda, 7st. llb., by six lengths. Darling 1 - - HEATON PARK MEETING. The following are the acceptances for the Heaton Park Stakes :- Touchstone, 5 yrs, 9st. 121 b. ; General Chasse, 5 yrs, 9st. 71b. ; Rush, 5 yrs, Bst. 101 b. ; Lady le Gros, 5 yrs, Est. 91b. ; 111undig, 5 yrs, &t. 71b. ; Masett o , 5 yrs, Bst. 71b. ; Paris, 5 yrs, Bst. 51b. ; Pelops, 4 yrs, Bst, 71b. ; Jupiter, 4 yrs, Bst. 21b. ; Oswald, 4 yrs, 7st. 121 b. ; Usury, 4 yrs, 7st. 1011).-Stockport, 4 yrs, 7st. 101 b. ; Gladiator, 3 yrs, 7st. 81b; Billinge, 5 yrs, Ist. 71b. ; Amurafh, 4 yrs, ist . 61b. ; Black Diam on d, 3 yrs, 7 st. 4 1 b. ; Ebberson, 3 yrs, 7st. 21b. ; Aleppo, 3 yrs, 6st. 121 b. ; Monson, 3 yrs, 6st. 121 b. ; Lady Jane, 3 yrs, 6st. 121 b. ; Weighton, 3 yrs, 6st. 121 b. ; Be douin, 3 yrs, 6st. 71b. ; Resurrection, 3 yrs, 6st. 51b. ; Azalia. 3 yrs, 6st. 21b. ; Spread Eagle, 3 yrs, 6st. 211). ; Aurelius, 5 yrs, 6st. 21b. AQUATICS. The sweepstakes match of yesterday did not, we regret to say, pass off so evenly as had been anticipated. It had on its first announcement created very tolerable interest ; in fact, the very circumstance of gentlemen backing watermen in a sweepstakes match was enough to redeem it. It had been left in bad hands, or we do not think that any wrangle could have taken place. The match had been made out of the con test for the sovereigns given by the gentlemen frequenters at Lyons's. When Ellis beat Bvford it was determined that these two men should have another turn for it ; and, in order to increase the interest of the match, a man named Newell, almost unknown in matches above bridge, but of the s,•ame weight as the others, was chosen to row with them, The af ternoon had set in with rain, and there were but very few of any thing like decent crews out. About a dozen gentlemen were out in their w ager wherries, and as many more accompanied by their watermen, rowing two pair sculls o f 0. or a ran dan. „, course there were the cutters frr,ni the stairs to which the re. spective men belonged, and 4 man in the bow of one of those boats, s the "tiger" of the party , wa s the have c great cause of a been obviated. putthe confusion, an d w hi c h might At half-past five tkey were in readiness. In the draw N ewell, who is from Cattle-bridge-stairs, took the first station, and Byford vrzs at No. 2. The two men Newell and Byford went off very even, but Ellis madeleading firsta bad start. Th e two wroad, but •en kept th e i r a dv a ntage within the Ellis turned a little out, and took the outside of of the first, an d neared at the Horseferry. Newell got half a length a-he a d at the Speaker's house, and upto Vauxhall bridge the st rugg l e was grand; but Newell would not let his adversary pass him, and in the situation we have described they passed through Vaux hall-bridge. They hugged the north shore, to make the long point from the Spread Eagle over t o t h e lied House, and on approaching the former, the two leading men were scull and scull. Newell held water with one hand and cleared a raft an which was drifti a ng up. Byford rowed right on the timber, d hi s , tailn thwrt was right out of the water; she filled im , t4 ediately, and he got into his cutter. Ellis had been through out a stern, and rowed hard to catch his opponent ; but the pa hatrty had been sadly out wh en they entertained an opinion t Newell could not row. He worked hard, maintained' his advantage, and won b y a minute. Ellis rowed very hard ' • but he i s lik e Willi ams, the Graves. end man. H e labours hard ; but his speed is not great. Oa their arrival at Putney there was A wmagie set 1, 1) i n favour of Byford, it being contended tk,at t the articles of the wager specified that if a man ute. fonled by anything there should be a fresh stmt. A yKaterrOaa whoa b on won "a round sum" on the ri,v,e.k, ancihai ‘!•stoocl iitA'' A little in two or three ma tlkt4 / 50 icipt much, 'issim Vo l e aa'air. If watermen, pre sum,m go 4, OP patranw 9.1. w gontlemea, will lay money, they it. hu pay, esppoWly O t ow ho have been very successful at i.c h w,;‘). are some watermen who are entrusted with too PAO 1• 7 300n7 to "lay out" for gentlemen. - . fi ~ 9, 1636.